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An instant New York Times bestseller, in a sweeping narrative the author of the esteemed A Beautiful Mind takes us on a journey through modern history with the men and women who changed the lives of every single person on the planet. Grand Pursuit is the epic story of the making of modern...

Hallucinations don’t belong wholly to the insane. Much more commonly, they are linked to sensory deprivation, intoxication, illness, or injury. Here Dr. Sacks weaves together stories of his patients and of his own mind-altering experiences to illuminate what hallucinations tell us about the...

Bestselling author Michael Lewis examines how a Nobel Prize–winning theory of the mind altered our perception of reality. Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making...

The moving, playful memoir of Hans Rosling, Swedish statistics mastermind, researcher extraordinaire and author of the global bestseller, Factfulness, with Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund This is a book that contains very few numbers. Instead, it is about meeting people who have opened my...

Clever and accessible, Generation Robot isn’t just for the serious, scientific reader―it’s for everyone interested in robotics and technology since their science-fiction origins. By looking back at the future she once imagined, analyzing the plugged-in present, and speculating on what is on the horizon, Terri Favro allows readers the chance to consider what was, what is, and what could be. This is a captivating book that looks at the pop-culture of our society to explain how the world works―now and tomorrow.

Just when her life felt right: new career, new home, new grandchildren, Janet Givens left it all behind and followed her new husband into the Peace Corps. Assigned to Kazakhstan, a Central Asian country finding its own way after generations under Soviet rule, Givens must also find a way to be in a world different from what she knew. And what she expected. Will it be worth it?

A major new biography of Francis Crick, codiscoverer of the structure of DNA, pioneering neuroscientist, and twentieth-century genius What are the moments that make a life? In Francis Crick’s, the decisive moment came in 1951, when he first met James Watson. Their ensuing discovery of the...

On October 26, 2004, Dominique Green, thirty, was executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas. Arrested at the age of eighteen in the fatal shooting of a man during a robbery outside a Houston convenience store, Green may have taken part in the robbery but always insisted that he did not...

From the author of the groundbreaking book On Death and Dying comes an inspiring account of a life well-lived with compassion and service. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, MD, is the woman who has transformed the way the world thinks about death and dying. Beginning with the groundbreaking publication of...

“Oliver Sacks meets Stephen King”* in this propulsive, haunting journey into the life of the most studied human research subject of all time, the amnesic known as Patient H.M. For readers of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks comes a story that has much to teach us about our relentless...

The captivating, untold story of Hermann Rorschach and his famous inkblot test In 1917, working alone in a remote Swiss asylum, psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach devised an experiment to probe the human mind: a set of ten carefully designed inkblots. For years he had grappled with the theories...

Neste livro, Cleber Santiago compartilha uma jornada real de queda, consciência e reconstrução. Unindo fé, neurociência, inteligência emocional e experiências vividas, o autor revela como pensamentos, sentimentos e escolhas moldam não apenas a mente, mas também o corpo, os relacionamentos e o destino. Um chamado para quem sente que nasceu para algo maior, mas ainda não sabe como acessar isso.

UNA PSIQUIATRA DIAGNOSTICADA DE PÁRKINSON COMPARTE 43 CLAVES PARA VIVIR SIN REMORDIMIENTOS Reconocido como un longseller con más de 350.000 ejemplares vendidos en Corea del Sur, Si pudiera vivir mi vida de nuevo te invita a dejar de posponer tu bienestar y a prestarte la atención que mereces...

Gabriele Mönnig alias Anaya Satya erzählt in eindrucksvollen Worten von familiären Prägungen, innerem Aufbruch und dem Mut, den eigenen Weg zu gehen – jenseits gesellschaftlicher Erwartungen. Die Hörer*innen begleiten sie durch bewegende Lebensphasen, spirituelle Erkenntnisse und heilende Prozesse, die nicht nur sie selbst, sondern auch ihr Umfeld transformieren. Ergänzt durch Bonusmaterial (Meditation & Kapitel) ist dieses Hörbuch ein Seelenkompass für alle, die spüren, dass auch in ihnen etwas Neues erwachen möchte.

A psychologist who evaluates the fitness of parents when their children have been removed from their custody finds herself reassessing her own mothering when her son falls victim to the opioid crisis. Psychologist and expert witness Dr. Sharon Lamb evaluates parents, particularly in high-stakes...

Part memoir, part self-help guide, Suffer Well bridges the gap between lived experience and evidence-based solutions, offering hope and concrete strategies for those ready to change their lives. It's an essential listen for anyone interested in addiction recovery, endurance sports, personal transformation, or the remarkable possibilities that emerge when we choose to reshape our relationship with suffering.

A dramatic true story about Sigmund Freud’s last-minute escape to London following the German annexation of Austria and the group of friends who made it possible. In March 1938, German soldiers crossed the border into Austria and Hitler absorbed the country into the Third Reich. Anticipating...

Glasklare Augen, Schlitz im Ohr, seidenweicher roter Pelz und ein starker, gutmütiger Charakter. Das ist Kater Bert! Als seine todbringende Diagnose ausgesprochen wird, ist klar, dass einer der allerbesten Freunde sterben wird. Niemand weiß, wieviel gemeinsame Zeit noch bleibt und wie der Abschied ablaufen wird. Das Sterben und die Sterbebegleitung – auch mithilfe von Tierkommunikation – entpuppen sich am Ende als ein Geschenk.

Sexueller Missbrauch ist in einem unvorstellbaren Ausmaß bitterste Realität in unserer Gesellschaft und verursacht unendlich viel Leid. Sie zeigt ungeschminkt ihre Verletzungen und Narben, die ES in ihrem Leben und in ihrer ganzen Familie hinterlassen hat und die als „Der rosarote Elefant" immer zwischen ihr und den anderen standen. Doch auch der Einblick in ihre persönlichen Verarbeitungsstrategien und Therapieansätze sind ein wichtiger Beitrag, damit missbrauchte Kinder und Erwachsene und deren Familien das Unvorstellbare begreifen können.

America's own The Professor and the Madman: the story of Noah Webster, author of the first dictionary of American English-and a forgotten leader during a turning point in our nation's history. Noah Webster's name is now synonymous with the dictionary he created, but although there is much more...